On Tuesday, the Portland Trail Blazers also got into the mix, offering a five-year, $40 million deal, according to a source close to Odom.

[The above ESPN link is now devoid of the numbers involving Portland from the earlier report.]

Key: "according to a source close to Odom." Any truth to this? Who knows.

The Blazers spent nearly all of their cap space signing Andre Miller. So either Paul Allen was dead set on paying into the luxary tax and creating even more of a logjam at the small forward position, a sign-and-trade would've been worked out or the Blazers were trying to drive up his price tag. Or, more likely, it's bogus.

Update: John Canzano on 95.5 The Game Thursday afternoon was able to reach Kevin Pritchard, who told Canzano the numbers would not work as stated above. The Game also reported the Blazers did reach out to Odom, according to another Blazers source..